Just A Little Query...

[gness]

If a television is switched off at 9pm...what would cause it to switch itself on at 10am the next morning?

Serious answers appreciated.....daft ones too......Gx

[Baldric]

An Alarm function?

[Bazile]

That's the time the spirits wake up

[wolf63]

Somebody hitting the on switch?

[Mamyalynne]

Here are just a few of the (more realistic) possibilities that your fellow anonymous internet contributors have suggested:

You or someone else has accidentally set a "wake-up" timer for your TV.
Your remote batteries are low. Remotes are known to send off some weird signals when they're on the last bit of juice. Your TV could be interpreting infrared noise from your remote as an "On" command.
The power button on the remote or the TV itself could be stuck.
Somebody could be playing a prank on you.
Your neighbors could be accidentally powering on your TV through the window, especially if they have the same model synced up with a similar universal remote (like the one your cable company gives you).
Your pet might have just sat or stepped on your remote control while you were in the other room.
Perhaps it wasn't powered off entirely before (maybe you shut off the cable box but not the TV screen?), and it's now flickering back on from a power surge.
A fluorescent lamp inside the same room as the TV is blinking red and causing a sensitive infrared remote sensor to turn the set on and off.
It could just be an internal electrical malfunction, like a resistor that's changed value or a defective infrared sensor.

[Bazile]

i think my suggestion sounds better :-)

[Bazile]

... from a fun point of view , of course

[Tuvok]

Was it turned off or just put in standby?

[gness]

Thank you all for your answers.....some to investigate there.....quite like the spirits...that could be fun...... :-)

Was sitting outside with coffee when two men started speaking in the sitting room......
I know the TV hadn't been on since last night....

I crept in with my loppers......I had been pruning a high tree....and a Homes for sale or move to programme was on...

The middle of the night wouldn't be happy making so I thought I'd ask....and stop it happening again.....

Thanks all....x

[gness]

No...turned off, Tuvok.......the box and the set......x

[aelmpvw]

warning to any would-be burglars, gness has loppers ...